On 30 September 2014 20:58, Brian Wolff <[email protected]> wrote:

> Would this mean that if people had a fancy sig, and they changed it,
> it would automatically update everywhere with this magic tag instead
> of just applying to new signatures? (Which might be cool)
>
> Downside to that you might have some tricky issue where people change
> their sig after the fact to be something malicious (For some
> definition of malicious), and then all the old sigs change without an
> edit to track it and generally be a vehicle for mass vandalism.
> (Didn't that use to be an issue on /. ?)
>

This also makes working out ​what the state of the page at time X quite
hard for things like "Please note that I am being paid to edit by XYZ Inc."
that come and go from month to month to be seen. I'd not be a fan of
changing this expectation without a huge amount of prior notice, and
definitely not doing to retrospectively…

J.
-- 
James D. Forrester
Product Manager, Editing
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.

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